hello, not sure if it a actual bug or not, but chmod reports incorrectly when it tries to modify file permissions on file systems it cannot handle, e.g. vfat. The --verbose switch reports that the switch is successful, but a quick ls -l of the file in question shows that the permissions are not changed (for vfat, the file system driver default mounts everything as owner/group root, permissions 755).
this is in contrast to chown, which verbosely reports that the operation is not permitted (i.e., attempting to chown a file on a vfat partition), even as root. -- Mike Chao MGH Cancer Center 149-7202 13th Street Charlestown, MA 02129 (617) 726-6260 (voice) (617) 726-5637 (fax) _______________________________________________ Bug-fileutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-fileutils
